Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-12
FROM ALL QUARTERS. MR. O'BRIEN IN CANADA. A PitifuI Tale Of Irish Dis- tresS. Clo1URE AGAIN IN COMMONS. Little Show For The Irish
 Members. FLOODS IN NEW BRUNSWICK. A Whole City Plunged In
 Darkness.
FLOODS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.
LORD LANsDowNE,s TENANTS

LORD LANsDOWNE's TENANTS. Editor O,Brien Draws a P1tiful Pic. | ture of the Crueltfes and Hardships 1 Heaped Upon the Poor UnfOrtu. ] mates.
 MONTREAL, May 11.--Editor O'Brien ot
 United Ireland spoke to an enthusiastic audi
 ence of over two thousand people in Albert
 Hall this evening. The meeting was in 1 charge of the local branch of the Irish Ma | tional league, but many French Canadians l attended. The name of Lord Lansdowne was hissed several times, but no demonstra- | tion was made in or out of the hall against
 the speaker. MT. O'Brien said he had come l to Canada because the homes of the poor people of Luggacurran, far away in Ireland 1 are desolate tonight and because the man who is responsible for it is here in the high est post of honor in this great free land. If l we come to Canada to ask you to befriend us and to save our people it is because this is not the first time that Canada has stood be- tween the Irish people and their oppressors. It is not the first time that you have stretched out the broad shield of your generous sympathy to stay the march of
 hunger and misgovernment in Ireland. Mir. Parnell has said he will never again beg the world for aims for Irish 1andlordism. We
 are now begging, not for aims, but to enable
 us to uproot that whole system of Irish
 landlordism. We do not come to ask you
 for e2O, 900 for charity any more, but to ask
 you to consider what use Lord Lansdowne is
 making of the e20, ,0OO year which you oh T.; 1o
 and if that be put to bad and inhuman
 use we ask you to convey your censure of
 Lord Lansdowne, as you have perfect right
 to do. Lord Lansdowne is laying waste an
 entire stretch of country miles long, as con-
 pletely as if the angel of death knocked at
 every cabin door in these valleys
 and devoted every man, woman and
 child to destruction. As soon as> he will
 have obtained his next batch of ejectment
 decrees he will have made clean sweep of
 the property and except Lord Lansdowne's
 own bailiffs and creatures the whole popula-
 ticn will have been banished and their homes
 will know them no more. Mir. O'Briendescribed
 incidents attending some of the evictions as
 follows: "1nfrm old women, aged eighty
 and odd years, whose tottering steps had to
 be guided out of their little homesteads, were
 put out in the pitiless storm of hail and
 snow. The cold March blast blew around
 them and the poor creatures cried bitterly. Old men over ninety years of age were told
 to clear out. The delicate mother, with her
 babe only fortnight old clasped in her
 arms, stood shivering outside while the
 "emergency men" pitched out her little be-
 Iongings. The emergency roen" were there
 with sledge hammers, crowbars, ladders,
 saws and hatchets to pull down the house
 and smash the furniture. miserable
 matched cottage into which the rain poured
 through the roof, occupied by tenant named Henry Mulhall, was entered by the
 sheriff On chair near the fire was poor
 old woman who did not seem to realize that
 she was going to be put out of the house which had sheltered her from childhood. It was raining and she was put out on the road side in the pitiless storm. These are few typical cases of the hundreds of evictions
 that have been going on on Lord Lansdownes Queens county estates. When the dispute arose the tenants owed only half years rent after all the frightful losses of the past seven years. One years rent should be due before evictions can take place and unworthy attempts have been made to make the Cana dian people believe that one years rent was due. The second half years rent said to be due was mere lawyers myth, a legal fiction known "the hanging gate" The Lugga- curran tenants were honest and peaceful. So far as crime is concerned the locality is sim ply stainless. During those barbarous evic- tions not a blow was struck nor stone flung. What have these people done to be robbed of home and land. Simply sought an abatement in the rents, abatements less than Earl Cow per's royal commissioners landlord commis-
 sion appointed by, a Tory government even, than the land commission courts are granting on neighboring estates and finally reductions 10 which Lord Lansdowne's own arbitrator, Mir. Denning, gave his assent and approval. I appeal to the people of Canada against Lord Lans- pesceable population. Substantially the Ca nadian flag foated over the evicting army and it was Canadian money that hired the semergency men" to do their dreadful work call upon you to free the Canadian name from this and to let Lord Lansdowne and the world know that when Canada stretched out an arm to Ireland it was not to wound but to save her."
 Tremendous cheering followed the close of the speech. Mir. O'Brien will speak in Quebec May 12, in Kingston the 18th, Toron- to the 17th and in Ottawa on the 18th. Lord Lansdowne is in Toronto to-day where he is being feted and welcomed and many persons here express the opinion that when MT. O'Brien reaches there and again at Kingston the Orangemen will try to raise disturb ances.
 
 LONDON, May 1.-The House of Commons this evening resumed consideration in com mittee of the coercion bill MT. Peter Me- Donald, Nationalist member for North Sligo. moved the adoption of an amendment
 to the effect that the evidence of witnesses at preliminary inquiries should not be ad- duced against them except in case of per- jury MT. Balfour, chief secretary for Ire land, opposed the adoption of such an amendment because as he said the clause as I it stood was necessary to induce witnesses to give evidence. Prof. James Stuart, Radical, of St. Andrews university, member for the Hoxton division of Shoreditch, declared that the clause as if stood was a most serious innovation in criminal law. MT. T. M. Healey said that in opposing the govern ! mept's proposal the Irish party were fighting l for one of the oldest principles of English | jurisprudence. MT. W. H. Smith, first lord | of the treasury, insisted that the committee | divide. Amid cries of "shame, ""monstrous, '' etc., cloture was put and carried by vote of 265 against 162.
 Parnen Going to London. LONDON, May 11.-Mr. ParneH has left ! Avondale and will arrive in London to- l morrow morning. He has sent telegram l saying that his health is improved and that | he expects to be present in Parliament to- | morrow.
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